The Higgs Boson Explained

On Friday July 13 at noon, faculty and other members of the Physics Department helped the campus community understand the significance of discovering the Higgs Boson, the particle that was predicted by Peter Higgs almost 50 years ago. Mark Richards, Executive Dean of the College of Letters & Sciences, will host this discussion for the Berkeley community.
Professors Beate Heinemann, an experimental physicist and a member of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland, and Lawrence Hall, a theoretical physicist and former Director of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, explained what the Higgs is, why it was predicted and how it was proven to exist. They were joined by panel members Professor Marjorie Shapiro, also a member of the Atlas experiment, Miller Fellow Josh Ruderman and PhD student and ATLAS member Louise Skinnari.

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[thinkrealify]

Ugh, particle people at it again. The sooner those people stop thinking of particles as some sub microscopic piece of dust the better. What they are seeing when they smash atomic nuclei is the full EMS wave energy released from slow time. The collision fractures the stability and the ejected pieces of "dust" are really different wave lengths of EMS coming out of slow time. I expect the Higgs field will be found to be an outer most (massless)electron shell. Extra dimensions are of time.

[Michael Ordoukhani]

If you bought your dinner from Tesco then you would answer "Beef Burger" but you did not know it was "Horse Meat".

[Judas1of12]

Actually, Bob is Lord. The universe can't create itself from nothing. There is intelligent design wherever I look. Therefore I know that the Flyyng Speghetti Mon Bob to die for our sin. How do I know? Because He was raised from the dead and did miracles, and there are all the witnesses who saw Him.

[Constantinos Kyventidis]

According to the OPEN BOOK OF THE NATURE : Higg EXIST but "boson" does not exist . Every 0,1,2,3-dimensionl part of our universe has mass from its EXISTENCE-status and not as comming from "elsewhere".!!The ATOMS(not subdivided) are three the ANO ,the KATO and the OUDETERO of my EXONIC THEORY=Generalisation of Relativity/Quantum/Classical Physics,simultaneously..!! Open your eyes:

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS,GREECE 2005-2012

with my NEW Maths and MY(total) New Physics..etc

[epicenur]

From your arguments I'd think you're being anything but reasonable. You argue that science can't explain something, so I'm arguing to you that your religion can't explain anything.You prove something wrong, but you can't back up your explanation so it's equally fallible. Though you can't prove science wrong because its observations, it also hasn't answered everything (yet) because its based off of observations.

[7777Ralph]

Friend, I'm trying to be reasonable here. But if I ask you what you ate for dinner last night, and you responded with "I don't know" or "I concede, I ate dinner last night" that may be a response, but it would not be an answer to my question. Telling me what you actually ate would be an answer to the question. Anything less, just means you don't want to answer it. Or you could say you didn't have dinner last night. But I need a straight answer.

[7777Ralph]

You still did not answer my question. You gave me a response that had nothing to do with my question. I'd love to answer your question, but need you to answer mine first. Since you claim science, I think that's only fair.

[epicenur]

No it's quite fair. You disproved science, now give me explanations from your religion to why we have stuff such as black holes, pulsars, billions of galaxies containing billions of stars, how can god be eternal something from nothing; Let alone, how can your religion explain ANYTHING that you claim science can't explain ESPECIALLY if it was written by some men 2000 years ago, translated through many languages, and interpreted many different ways?

[7777Ralph]

Sir, I would love to answer your questions. But you have to answer mine first. You claim science so I think that is only fair.